Re: [gentoo-dev] RPM installer for Gentoo

[Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>]

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On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:53, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > I remember using a program in Debian called 'Alien'. It would convert
> > rpm's into .deb, .tar.gz, or convert to .deb install the package and
> > remove the .deb it created. It could probably be extended to do the same
> > to create .ebuild's.
> >
> > I'll download the sources and take a look.
>
> Yes, but can Alien install dependencies using Portage? That would be the
> aim of this project.

rpms and debs have dependency information, it must be available at some point 
during the conversion process (it's transferred between rpm <-> deb). So it 
should be trivial to build the {P,R}DEPEND info from that to create a simple 
ebuild.
The conversion process can ask the category, or default to something sensible 
like app-converted maybe ?

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Mike Williams
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